Winston Reeves Photograph Collection

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Winston Reeves began his photographic career in 1938 when he opened a studio at 1719 Broadway after graduating from Texas Tech University. During World War II he was an Army flight instructor at Breedlove Field in Lubbock while his wife and three assistants operated the studio. Reeves Photography was especially busy during World War II as young men about to be shipped overseas wanted to leave a photograph behind. Also, plentiful jobs provided money for family photos that had been put on hold during the Depression.

In addition to his portraiture business, Reeves documented the growth of Lubbock, Texas and the surrounding area until his death in 1965. In 1996 the files of Reeves Photography were deposited in the Southwest Collection, Texas Tech University, where they are being prepared for students and scholars to use. The commercial images have significant historical value because they illustrate the changes that took place throughout middle America in the middle years of the 20th Century. Mrs. Reeves kept meticulous records therefore identification and dates are available for most of the
60,000 images that have been digitized from this collection.

Due to the high volume of images in the collection as well as resource constraints, the images presented on this web site are a chosen subset of the
entire collection. Images that have been earmarked for web presentation are representative of the contents of the entire collection.

A supplement has been added to the Winston Reeves Collection. This material, not yet digitized or available on-line, includes ninety-eight 8x10 pictures of Texas Tech Buildings, farmland, many Lubbock buildings, streets, mills, Lindsey Theatre, among other undated photographs. These may be seen in the Reading Room by requesting SWCPC 915.

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Reference Desk website for more information on our procedures for requesting images and other archival material from the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library.

The images in this collection are for study purposes, teaching, classroom projection and research only. Permission to publish these digital files in any form must be obtained from the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, 806-742-9070 or e-mail reference.swco@ttu.edu.